President Obama must “demonstrate that he can order the
offensive use of force in circumstances other than secret drone attacks
or covert operations,” she writes.

Translation: to get Putin back for his supposed actions in Ukraine, Slaughter calls for President Obama to bomb Syria.

Slaughter recognizes the view of “Assad as the lesser evil compared
to the Al Qaeda-affiliated members of the opposition” and admits that
“the Syrian government does appear to be slowly giving up its chemical
weapons, as it agreed last September to do.”

Nevertheless, she writes, ”it is time to change Putin’s calculations, and Syria is the place to do it.”

“It is impossible to strike Syria legally so long as Russia sits on
the United Nations Security Council,” she writes, so her solution is
simply to do it illegally. She suggests that the US should begin bombing
Syria to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 2139, even though that
is not a “Chapter VII” resolution authorizing force.